A Palestinian who wounded a soldier and a policeman by driving into them was shot and killed by police after a three-hour chase. Police used a helicopter and set up roadblocks in the dragnet for the man, who intended to run down as many people as possible. Hizbullah's Manar television suggested it was a terrorist attack, saying the Palestinian was from Fatah. According to Palestinian Authority security sources, however, the man, who was unarmed, was a known car thief who had apparently been trying to evade capture. Nevertheless, security sources stressed that the man, who deliberately drove into a soldier after refusing instructions to stop at a checkpoint, then ran down a policeman and reportedly tried to hit civilians, was not on a joyride.
This account seems to read a little diffently from the Reuters version. |